Courtesy of Judith Gregg Librarian Catherine Arbogast heads out with a personalized book delivery from the Los Altos main library.

Love of learning and curiosity about the world sometimes grow only more urgent as a person spends more and more time at home, limited by age, health condition, or both. Librarians head out from the Los Altos main l...

Already known as an innovator in the tech field, Google Inc. is now moving in on the art world.

The Mountain View-based company July 11 launched the “Paint the Town” contest, a “moving art experiment” that invites California residents over the age of 13 to submit physical or digital artwork that would decorate the door...

Traci Newell/Town Crier The six-week, tuition-free Stretch to Kindergarten program, hosted at Bullis Charter School, serves children who have not attended preschool. A teacher leads children in singing about the parts of a butterfly, above.

courtesy of Rishi Bommannan Rishi Bommannan cycled from Bates College in Maine to his home in Los Altos Hills, taking several selfies along the way. He also raised nearly $13,000 for the Livestrong Foundation, which supports cancer patients.

The Town Crier’s recent article on coyotes venturing down from the foothills in search of sustenance referenced the organization Project Coyote (“Recent coyote attacks keep residents on edge,” July 1). Do not waste your time contac...

Photos by Alicia Castro/Town Crier Local residents participate in an exercise class at the Grant Park Senior Center, above. Betsy Reeves, below left with Gail Enenstein, lobbied for senior programming in south Los Altos.

Grace Wilson Franks, our beloved mother and grandmother, left us peacefully on July 16, 2015 just a few weeks short of her 92nd birthday. She was born to Ross and Florence (Cruzan) Wilson in rural Tulare, California on Septem...

Most of us have a place inside our hearts and minds that occasionally causes us trouble. For some, it is sadness, depression or despair. For others, it may be fear, anger, resentment or myriad other emotional “dark places” that at times seem to hij...

Gary Anderson/Special to the Town Crier Mercedes-Benz last month opened a new research and development center in Sunnyvale. It houses 200 staff, with room for 400.

The world automotive press came to Sunnyvale Nov. 21 to witness the opening of Mercedes-Benz’s new research and development center, built to house the growing programs that develop digital, electronic, driver assistance and lifestyle products for the company worldwide.

Mercedes-Benz was the first automotive manufacturer to establish an R&D facility in Silicon Valley, opening in Palo Alto in 1995. The goal was to be near companies like Apple and Google that were playing a growing role in automotive electronics.

The staff in the new building comprises 200 people, with sufficient space to double the number of engineers and scientists. The Silicon Valley operation is part of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG.

The building itself, located at 309 N. Pastoria Ave., is designed around the mission of the organization, which is collaborative innovation among the staff members and across staff groups, and with joint-venture partners and other development organizations around the world.

All the staff areas are open-design, including the automotive lab and test garage, supplemented by audio-visual conference rooms, “huddle areas” for conversation, massive whiteboard walls to capture ideas and quiet rooms for individual work and conference calls. Surrounding the work areas are terraces overlooking the hills, break areas with food preparation facilities, a well-equipped cafeteria and two game rooms.

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